Worldviews, Research Methods, and their Relationship to Validity in Empirical Software Engineering Research

@article{Petersen2013WorldviewsRM,
title={Worldviews, Research Methods, and their Relationship to Validity in Empirical Software Engineering Research},
author={Kai Petersen and Çigdem Gencel},
journal={2013 Joint Conference of the 23rd International Workshop on Software Measurement and the 8th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement},
year={2013},
pages={81-89}
}

Background - Validity threats should be considered and consistently reported to judge the value of an empirical software engineering research study. The relevance of specific threats for a particular research study depends on the worldview or philosophical worldview of the researchers of the study. Problem/Gap - In software engineering, different categorizations exist, which leads to inconsistent reporting and consideration of threats. Contribution - In this paper, we relate different… CONTINUE READING